Mummies, bones & body parts

Title
Mummies, bones & body parts

Personal Author EPSB
Charlotte. Wilcox

Summary
Describes the wide variety of human remains, the use and abuse of them, what they reveal about life in the past, and contemporary attitudes toward the dead.

Other Title
Mummies, bones and body parts

Year Published
2000

Physical Description
64 p. : ill.

Note
9.00.

Contents
The long rest -- Looking after the dead -- How old are they? -- What killed them? -- Who were they? -- What to do with mummies and bones.

Subject
Mummies.
 
Human remains (Archaeology)
 
Funeral rites and ceremonies.
 
Fossil hominids.

Summary
Describes the wide variety of human remains, the use and abuse of them, what they reveal about life in the past, and contemporary attitudes toward the dead.

ISBN
9781575054865

Publisher
Minneapolis : Carolrhoda Books, c2000.


LibraryCall NumberTypeItem BarcodeStatus
Abbott599.97 WILBook30100000072050Non-Fiction